Risk factors that predict staff failure to release nursing home residents from restraints. Academic Article

abstract

• This study identifies resident characteristics related to nursing staff failure to provide consistent release from physical restraints as required by regulation. The lengths of intervals during which residents were restrained were measured and correlated with the staff's perception of degree of care burden and resident behavioural characteristics in order to identify risk factors related to the absence of consistent release. Staff perceptions of residents' verbal aggressiveness (multiple R = -.30, p < .01), physical aggressiveness (multiple R = -.25, p < .03) and unpleasantness (multiple R = -.25, p < .03) are the three characteristics most predictive of the length of time residents continuously remain restrained.

authors

• Ory, Marcia

published proceedings

• Gerontologist

author list (cited authors)

• Schnelle, J. F., Simmons, S. F., & Ory, M. G.

citation count

• 16

complete list of authors

• Schnelle, JF||Simmons, SF||Ory, MG

publication date

• December 1992

publisher

• Oxford University Press (OUP)  Publisher

published in

• The Gerontologist  Journal

keywords

• Aged
• Aged, 80 And Over
• Aggression
• Allied Health Personnel
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Nursing Homes
• Personality
• Quality Of Health Care
• Restraint, Physical
• Risk Factors
• Tennessee

PubMed Central ID

• 1478495

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1093/geront/32.6.767

start page

• 767

end page

• 770

volume

• 32

issue

• 6

URL

• http://gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/6/767.abstract